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Barbara Demick 關於本書講座＠ Oslo Freedom Forum 2011

　

站前 英文 | [我們最幸福]透視北韓極權體制　

小編[我們最幸福]之讀後感：

由美國每日郵報記者採訪6位脫北者的殘酷人生，交織出北韓極權主義。

印象最深刻一段：金醫師立志成為北韓勞動黨員，畢生信奉金日成的教條，大饑荒時代背景下，飢餓促使她不畏深夜低溫沿著河流由逃離北韓邊境。衝入一間農舍正當金醫師看著地上一碗白飯拌伴著白豬肉片，一陣吠聲想起，金醫師明白了一件事實：中國的狗吃的北韓的人民好。

日常生活中的瑣碎細節，也許聽著一段流行音樂、也許正在劇院看著某一部電影、也許正在購買某一雙鞋、也許正計畫著要前往哪一個國家旅行，這個民主環境都是先前自由鬥士爭取而來，我們應該要知足、惜福，大聲地說：「我們最幸福。」

關於[我們最幸福]

＝榮獲「2010年英國年度圖書獎」＝
　　入選「2011年美國國家書卷獎非文學決選作品」
　　亞馬遜網站讀者五顆星評等,已授權多國語言出版
　　芭芭拉．德米克用一種引人注目，而又讓人難忘的方式為人們展示出
　　『這個封閉的國家其實就是喬治．奧威爾作品《1984》的現實版』
　　《我們最幸福》是一部描寫朝鮮生活最好的作品。──英國圖書獎評委

　　朝鮮向來是個外人難以深入、臆測的一個祕密國度。
　　夜空中，整個朝鮮地區都是黑的，那黑暗訴說著人民深不可測的痛苦，
　　有時卻又穿插著零星微弱的希望曙光……

　　與燈光閃耀的南韓相比，北韓好似黑夜與白晝。在這裡，飢荒奪去了數百萬人的性命，製造和貿易幾乎停止，經濟崩潰，醫療機制失敗，人們習慣於行走在要跨越屍體倒臥在街頭。

What if the nightmare imagined by George Orwell in 1984 were real? 

What if you had to live in a country where radio dials were fixed to a single government station? Where the surroundings were entirely black-and-white except for the red lettering of the propaganda signs? Where you were required to keep a large portrait of the president on your living room wall and bow to it on national holidays? Where sexuality was repressed except for purposes of reproduction? Where spies like Orwell’s Thought Police studied your facial expressions during political rallies to make sure you were sincere not only in your speech but your thoughts?

This is a real place – the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea or North Korea. The Communist regime that has controlled the northern half of the Korean peninsula since 1945 might be the most totalitarian of modern world history.

George Polk Award and Robert F. Kennedy Award-Winning Journalist Barbara Demick’s NOTHING TO ENVY: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Spiegel & Grau; On Sale December 29, 2009) offers a never-before-seen view of a country and society largely unknown to the rest of the world.

資料參考：
http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=0010507026
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/10/entertainment/la-ca-barbara-demick10-2010jan10
http://nothingtoenvy.com/

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